Rate My Professor Ralph Adler

Adler's research interests encompass performance management, strategic management accounting, organisational effectiveness, and active student learning. He has produced over 100 publications, including academic papers, practitioner articles, business case studies, and two books: Management Accounting: Making it World Class and Strategic Performance Management: Accounting for Organisational Control. Key recent works include 'Accounting Professionalism: Serving the Public Interest Means First Serving Accounting Students' (2025, Accounting & Finance), 'Performance Evaluation of Academics: A Social Influence Theory Perspective' (2024, Accounting & Finance), 'Accounting for Waste Management: A Study of the Reporting Practices of the Top Listed Indian Companies' (2022, Accounting & Finance), and 'Creating a Modified Monopoly Game for Promoting Students’ Higher-Order Thinking Skills and Knowledge Retention' (2021, Issues in Accounting Education). His scholarship has attracted 5,776 citations on Google Scholar. Adler recently retired as Senior Associate Editor of Accounting Education and serves on editorial boards of Australian Accounting Review, Asia Pacific Management Accounting Journal, International Review of Banking and Financial Studies, Journal of Risk and Financial Management, Pacific Accounting Review, and Regional Formation and Development Studies. Honors include Fellow of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (2016), Coopers and Lybrand Peter Barr Fellowship, American Chamber of Commerce Business Education Fellowship, and multiple best paper awards. A 2014 study by Delande et al. ranked him as New Zealand's leading accounting education publisher and fifth globally.